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This verse illustrates Peter ' s language f 2 Epist . 1 . 14 ? Cf Shortly Imust put off this my tabernacle . ' Philip , i . S 3 .-. " 1 am in a strait bet ween two , having a ( fe-r sire to depart and to be with Christr-rnevertheless to abide In the flesh is more needful for you . "
Ans . The two objects which distracted Paul ' s choice were not whether he should live or die , but wh ^ jthfr he should prefer going immediately to future happiness , without passing through a state of death , ( see 2 Cor . v . 1—9 , ) which would have been far
better , i . e . more agreeable to his inclinations , or continue to 6 pend a laborious but usefullife in preaching the gospel , which would be much better for them . In the latter of these he acquiesces ; although self-love would have Jed him to choose the former ,, *
In concluding our analysis of this part of Mr . K . ' s reason * ing > we take the liberty of warmly recommending to theological students , Bp . Law ' s excellent appendix concerning the use of the words soul , spirit Kc . in scripture . We further beg leave to suggest that much mis-apprehension and dispute would pro « K bablv have been saved had the words so translated in our bibles
been rendered , in many passages , according to their proper signification , by the term breath . > Mr . K / s last sermon on the state of the dead ( No . iv . vol . I . ) answers some objections which have been made ^ on the ground of reason , against the doctrine that he has advanced , and points ? Out the advantages to be derived from the belief of it .
Obj . 1 . The essence of the mind consisting in thought , when this ceases by death , the soul must be annihilated : so that , if there be a new Jife , there is a new creation not a resur * rection ; and the soul , not having the same consciousness , cannot be a proper subject of rewards or punishments .
Ans . If there he any force in this argument , it holds against a resurrection of the body equally as against a resurrection of the mind : but , in truth , it has no weight against either : the recovery of the same powers will constitute the same being * . Obj . 2 . The doctrine of the soul's remaining in a state of
death , till the resurrection , supposes good men to have the season of enjoyment and reward deferred for many thousand vears , and the punishment of the wicked to be deferred for a | ike period : hereby the sanctions of virtue and vice are weak * ened ; and such a plan is both uncomfortable and unwise .
4 ns . Our wishes are not the standard of truth and right , Th £ fact is , that the lapse of time not being perceive *! by those who ar $ in a . state of death or sleep , the momeut whenr they die . . . ¦ - - 5 . ' » . -. ¦ ^ * ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ . . ' * The reader may be referred to Palcy ' s Natural Theology , p . 581—; 585 , 1 st * cd *
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148 J ^ enrzck ' S Sermons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/36/
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